Tree of Life Quilts

Can't stop smiling when I see Tree of Life Quilts!
Proverbs 13:12 New International Version (NIV) "12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life." (Thanks Biblegateway.com!)

Tree of Life. In the early 1600’s hand painted chintzes from India appeared in Europe. Their brilliantly colored motifs of exotic flowers, and birds, often adorned a Tree of Life emerging from rocky hillocks. The designs fired the imaginations of textile designers, printers and embroiderers in the 17th and 18th C. The fusion of earlier Jacobean crewel embroidery designs with Indian and Chinese, resulted in the craze for “Chinoiserie”, which swept through Western Europe in the 18th C. not dated

Margaret Light, Tree of Life, crewel work.

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Art - Tree of Life - Crewelwork. This is one of my all time favorite designs. abb